# Michael Madsen, September 25, 1957 – July 3, 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [July 3, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-madsen-september-25-1957-july-3-2025/1020458 "2025-07-03T19:08:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-madsen-september-25-1957-july-3-2025/1020458/1 "2025-07-03T19:08:34Z")
> **[Michael Madsen, 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Kill Bill: Vol. 2' actor, dies at 67](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/michael-madsen-reservoir-dogs-kill-bill-vol-2-actor-dies-67-rcna216802)** > > In an acting career spanning more than 40 years, Madsen racked up dozens of screen credits. But he was best known for his collaborations with Quentin Tarantino. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-madsen-september-25-1957-july-3-2025/1020458/2 "2025-07-03T19:30:05Z")
A bad guy’s bad guy. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-madsen-september-25-1957-july-3-2025/1020458/3 "2025-07-03T20:49:22Z")
It was the black Mamba all along. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-madsen-september-25-1957-july-3-2025/1020458/4 "2025-07-03T20:58:49Z")
OK, seriously, I thought he was already dead. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-madsen-september-25-1957-july-3-2025/1020458/5 "2025-07-03T21:00:09Z")
67? [checks birthday] geeze! I remember a story he told about a director wanting him to play a love scene with the actress Virginia Madsen. “She’s my sister!” ---
**Author:** ![DaveUnknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@DaveUnknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveUnknown)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-madsen-september-25-1957-july-3-2025/1020458/6 "2025-07-03T21:11:47Z")
I thought he was younger as well. I just saw Wargames on tv a few weeks ago, “is that….?” Yes, it was. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-madsen-september-25-1957-july-3-2025/1020458/7 "2025-07-03T21:14:47Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I remember a story he told about a director wanting him to play a love scene with the actress Virginia Madsen. “She’s my sister!” He was on record saying he’d never go to a movie where she shows her breasts. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-madsen-september-25-1957-july-3-2025/1020458/8 "2025-07-03T21:34:03Z")
He’s the King of the Modern B movie, his IMDB lists him starring in over 300 movies, most of them with a rating under 6.0 He’s well aware of this though, I heard a radio interview with him over a decade ago where the hosts brought up his IMDB profile and he literally went through a big chunk of the list telling them stuff like “Okay I did this movie so I could get my car fixed, this movie so I could pay for a family members operation, this movie because it was only a single day of shooting for $20,000 etc.” ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-madsen-september-25-1957-july-3-2025/1020458/9 "2025-07-04T04:40:47Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > He was on record saying he’d never go to a movie where she shows her breasts. Hugh Hefner’s son Cooper hated the fact that there was a nude photograph of his mother hanging in the library of the mansion he lived in. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-madsen-september-25-1957-july-3-2025/1020458/10 "2025-07-04T10:03:34Z")
> Madsen racked up dozens of screen credits. Somewhere around 29 dozen. Journalism these days. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-madsen-september-25-1957-july-3-2025/1020458/11 "2025-07-04T14:38:06Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > He’s well aware of this though, I heard a radio interview with him over a decade ago where the hosts brought up his IMDB profile and he literally went through a big chunk of the list telling them stuff like “Okay I did this movie so I could get my car fixed, this movie so I could pay for a family members operation, this movie because it was only a single day of shooting for $20,000 etc.” Michael Caine said about _Jaws: The Revenge_ (1987), “I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.” ---
**Author:** ![TheTyrant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thetyrant/32/19111_2.png) [@TheTyrant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheTyrant)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-madsen-september-25-1957-july-3-2025/1020458/12 "2025-07-04T17:11:45Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > OK, seriously, I thought he was already dead. No joke, I did too. (Pretty sure I was thinking of Tom Sizemore.) ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-madsen-september-25-1957-july-3-2025/1020458/13 "2025-07-04T18:58:34Z")
Ah, yes. Me, too. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-madsen-september-25-1957-july-3-2025/1020458/14 "2025-07-09T13:58:51Z")
> His doctor said heart failure will be listed as the cause of death with heart disease and **alcoholism** named as contributing factors. > **[‘Reservoir Dogs' actor Michael Madsen died from heart failure, doctor says](https://www.nbclosangeles.com/entertainment/michael-madsen-cause-of-death/3740494/)** > > Actor Michael Madsen has died after he was found unresponsive early Thursday at his Malibu home, according to authorities and his representatives. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-madsen-september-25-1957-july-3-2025/1020458/15 "2025-07-09T14:35:52Z")
> [@TheTyrant](#): > > Tom Sizemore Oh man, Tom Sizemore is dead? I missed that. I always liked him. Too bad about his personal problems. I liked Michael Madsen, too. I see they were both (along with Virginia) in something called _The Florentine._ Never heard of it. ---
**Author:** ![TheTyrant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thetyrant/32/19111_2.png) [@TheTyrant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheTyrant)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-madsen-september-25-1957-july-3-2025/1020458/16 "2025-07-09T14:56:23Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I always liked him. Too bad about his personal problems. Yeah, Sizemore was in a lot of great movies throughout the 90s and early 00s. Always really solid. But yeah unfortunately he apparently struggled with addiction since the age of 15. Unless you’re _really_ lucky, you just can’t live that way forever. It’s gonna catch up. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-madsen-september-25-1957-july-3-2025/1020458/17 "2025-07-09T19:38:42Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > Michael Caine said about _Jaws: The Revenge_ (1987), “I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.” I saw Sigourney Weaver on a talk show where the host asked her why she chose to star in Alien Resurrection. She said, well, they backed a dump truck full of cash up to my house… ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-madsen-september-25-1957-july-3-2025/1020458/18 "2025-07-09T22:00:00Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Somewhere around 29 dozen. Journalism these days. “That’s two gross!” “Nothing is too gross for journalists these days.” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-madsen-september-25-1957-july-3-2025/1020458/19 "2025-07-09T22:27:50Z")
Cue Stealers Wheel. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-madsen-september-25-1957-july-3-2025/1020458/20 "2025-07-09T22:31:53Z")
_Listen kid, I’m not gonna bullshit you, all right? I don’t give a good fuck what you know, or don’t know, but I’m gonna torture you anyway, regardless. Not to get information. It’s amusing, to me, to torture a cop. You can say anything you want cause I’ve heard it all before. All you can do is pray for a quick death, which you ain’t gonna get._ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-madsen-september-25-1957-july-3-2025/1020458.md?page=2)